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Geis, Shannonhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7916/D8H1306VWed, 09 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000An audio walk through the neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn, exploring its tumultuous history and current struggles with gentrification and rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy.History, Urban planningsng2122Oral HistoryInterviews and roundtablesAmbiguous Borders: Exploring the Definitions of Community in Red Hook, Brooklynhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:174103
Geis, Shannonhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7916/D8DV1H0ZMon, 19 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000This audio walking tour explores the unique and varied history of the neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn. Through oral history interviews with residents of the neighborhood, we see how diverse and dynamic the neighborhood can be, as well as how divided. Completed a year and a half after Hurricane Sandy, many of the narrators discuss their experiences with the storm and how it has affected their homes and community.Historysng2122Oral HistoryMaster's thesesStories of the Skin: Exploring Women’s Skin through Oral Historyhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:165697
Brooks, Ellen Brigidhttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:21784Wed, 25 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000The purpose of this oral history thesis is to examine women’s relationship with their skin, focusing on tattoos and scars that tell stories that are considered essential to a narrator’s identity. My initial research demonstrated that skin is inherently linked with the idea of self and the presentation of self to the outside world. I began this project with an interest in exploring the skin’s potential as a permanent physical archive, canvas, protective barrier and more. In order to do so, and to build on my academic research, it seemed obvious that oral history was an ideal vehicle because it would allow me to insert actual women’s voices into the conversation. While every narrator would have an individual story to tell, living with and interpreting the stories of our skin is a universal experience. The concentration on scars and tattoos (explained in greater detail below) would serve to narrow the focus. The project would be an attempt to give voice and agency to women who have something to say about what their skin says about them. My original interest in skin and tattoos and scars came about organically, from conversations about my own tattoos, entertaining story swapping about “battle scars”, and an extremely compelling article from the New York Times about young Israelis getting tattoos to match their grandparents’ Holocaust tattoos. The article struck me especially, because of the diverse reactions and charged conversations that the tattoos inspired. It left me thinking about tattoos and scars, and tattoos as scars, and what it means to have these memories permanently marked on our bodies. As I began my oral history work I was motivated by the potential that oral history had to bring these stories and themes to light and now I am excited to present them publicly through the project website (www.storiesoftheskin.com) and to start a larger conversation about skin and embodiment.History, Women's studies, Sociologyeb2842Oral HistoryMaster's thesesAn Oral History Project of Chinese Americans: Life in Betweenhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:161822
Fan, Haitaohttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:20564Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000This is a paper combines my observations and interviewees' testimonies. It is a project about Chinese Americans, who carry two cultures in their bodies and get over difficult transitions over years.Asian American studieshf2246Oral HistoryMaster's thesesLove: The Mix-Tape, Love Stories of African-American Gay Elders Living in New York Cityhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:161819
Lovelace, Lamarhttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:20562Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000Description of aural thesis project for the Master of Oral History Program at Columbia University. One of the generationally consistent challenges of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (GLBTQ) human beings is the appropriation of Love. In addition to the minimal presence of non-stereotypical inclusions within popular culture, this dilemma is further exacerbated by the hegemony of hetero-normative narratives regarding family and gender roles articulated by religious organizations, mass media outlets, and political as well as legal institutions. For individuals who develop and display the courage necessary to outwardly proclaim intimate attraction and desire for members of the same sex, ultimately a complicated journey begins. En route, the old glue of tradition quickly become a series of subconscious traps for which the reconciliation between, reformation of, and translation into the meaning, structure, and execution of one’s psychological framework or worldview for interpersonal Love must be freed.GLBT studies, African American studiesll2459Oral HistoryMaster's thesesThe Weight of Words: A Co-Constructed Narrative of Love And/In Traumahttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:161023
Wolcott, Sarahttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:20277Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000What does it mean to come of age in the light of trauma? To find love? Can suffering be shared? How close can one get to a trauma they didn’t experience and to someone who survived it? In this work, I combine personal narrative, trauma theory, and oral histories of ten child survivors of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. By telling the story of my time in Rwanda in 2008, the things I heard and the people I met, I hope to offer up myself and this work as an example, or perhaps more aptly, an experiment, to how we might share the weight of words.African studies, Psychologysmw2002Oral HistoryMaster's theses“All My Songs Are In The Past” Older Women Look Back on Romantic Love: Nostalgia, Imagination, and Idealizationhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:156991
Taylor, Laurenhttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:19140Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000When I first conceptualized this thesis, it was narrower in scope. I had originally planned to focus only on older women’s nostalgia for early romantic love -­ a topic that grew out of a recurrent theme in both my clinical work with older women and in my work as an oral historian. It is a theme that is at the core of my own story as well. But as I began interviewing and analyzing the women’s narratives, I realized that this nostalgia was not a singular phenomenon but was, rather, deeply rooted in the women’s internalization of received messages about what it means to be female -­ messages transmitted on both the familial and societal level. Many of the women lived, often out of necessity, what might from the outside look to be feminist lives; yet almost none would describe themselves as feminists. This phenomenon piqued my curiosity, and I began addressing it in the interviews. Additionally, as I explored the literature on nostalgia, I understood its complexity within the framework of imagination and idealization.Women's studiesSociology, Oral HistoryMaster's thesesGrant’s Tomb An Oral History at a Commemorative Landscapehttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:156042
Dziedzic, Sarah E.http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:18895Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000Grant‘s Tomb holds the bodies of Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, Julia Dent Grant. Built in 1897 in New York City‘s Riverside Park in Morningside Heights, the tomb and the surrounding plaza are officially the General Grant National Memorial, a name change that coincided with its establishment as a National Park Service site in 1959 after a long era of management by the Grant Monument Association.2 It is a historic monument and a site of public history; a New York City landmark and a place of national storytelling; a nineteenth century shrine and a complex memorial that also serves the present. In this work, I consider how Grant‘s Tomb becomes a place of diverse and personal meaning endowed with the ability to transport visitors to a past that reaches back to select points of the twentieth century, to the tomb‘s construction and Grant‘s death at the end of the nineteenth century, and to the American Civil War in the 1860s.American historysed65Oral HistoryMaster's thesesLower East Side History and Memorieshttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:133653
Zapol, Lizahttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:10536Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000American historyOral HistoryInterviews and roundtablesEconomy Candy and Conclusionhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:133662
Zapol, Lizahttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:10539Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000American historyOral HistoryInterviews and roundtablesHarris Levy Linenshttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:133659
Zapol, Lizahttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:10538Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000American historyOral HistoryInterviews and roundtablesStreits Matzohttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:133656
Zapol, Lizahttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:10537Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000American historyOral HistoryInterviews and roundtablesEconomy Candy and Conclusionhttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:134233
Zapol, Lisahttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:10539Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000American historyOral HistoryInterviews and roundtables"Stores of Memory": An Oral History of Multigenerational Jewish Family Businesses in the Lower East Sidehttp://academiccommons.columbia.edu/catalog/ac:132888
Zapol, Lizahttp://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:10431Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000American historySociology, Oral HistoryMaster's theses